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Summary of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Mar 21, 2025
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Summary
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A Rose for Emily starts with a small
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southern town gathering for a funeral
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the entire Community fills the streets
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leading to a once grand house where miss
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Emily greerson has lived and died the
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old mansion stands with its faded
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Elegance surrounded by modern cotton
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wagons and gasoline pumps inside this
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house time has stood still while the
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world outside change the town's people
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attend not just out of respect but
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curiosity as no Outsider had stepped
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inside that house for over 10 years they
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remember Emily as a tradition an
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obligation and a care a monument to the
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Old South that refused to Disappear
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Completely inside the dusty parlor where
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Tax Collectors once visited Emily had
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maintained her stubborn dignity when
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officials came to collect taxes years
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ago she refused them with Regal posture
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I have no taxes in Jefferson she
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declared referring to an arrangement
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made with Colonel curis a mayor long
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dead the room smelled of dust in disuse
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like a tomb where Furniture sat
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untouched Emily herself seemed like a
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drowned woman with her gray hair and
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black dress her body bloated and her
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eyes like two small pieces of coal the
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town watched her decline through windows
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and doorways always maintaining a
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respectful distance from this living
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relic of their past at the Town Pharmacy
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where shelves held countless remedies
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Emily once purchased poison I want
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arsenic she told the druggist with her
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head held high when asked why she simply
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stared him down and until he wrapped the
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package and labeled it poison the town's
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people whispered that she would kill
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herself after her sweetheart abandoned
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her years earlier her father had driven
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away all her suitors believing no man
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was good enough for an Emily greerson
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after his death Emily refused to
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acknowledge his passing for three days
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insisting he was still alive until
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ministers and doctors persuaded her to
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release his body for burial the
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community forgave this strange Behavior
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saying she had to cling to what little
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she had left within the upstairs bedroom
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that remained locked for decades the
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town's people finally discovered the
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truth after Emily's funeral breaking
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down the door sealed shut since Homer's
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disappearance they found a room
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decorated as a bridal Suite covered in
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layers of dust on the bed lay Homer
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Baron's corpse decomposed and sunken
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into the madess beside him on the pillow
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was the indentation of a head and a long
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strand of iron gray hair evidence that
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Emily had been sleeping next to her dead
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lover for years
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the room preserved in Faded Rose colors
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told the final chapter of Emily's story
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a woman who refused to accept loss time
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or change in a world that had moved
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forward without her
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